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Category: Books (Philosophy)
Author: Young, Walter Edward
Author: Young, Walter Edward
ISBN-10: 3319255207
ISBN-10: 3319255207
ISBN-13: 9783319255200
ISBN-13: 9783319255200
Publisher: Springer
Publisher: Springer
Binding: Hardcover
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 01-Apr-2016
Pub Date: 01-Apr-2016
SKU: 3319255207-11-SPRI
SKU: 3319255207-11-SPRI
Item ID: 100275111
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The Dialectical Forge identifies dialectical disputation (jadal) as a primary formative dynamic in the evolution of pre-modern Islamic legal systems, promoting dialectic from relative obscurity to a more appropriate position at the forefront of Islamic legal studies. The author introduces and develops a dialectics-based analytical method for the study of pre-modern Islamic legal argumentation, examines parallels and divergences between Aristotelian dialectic and early juridical jadal-theory, and proposes a multi-component paradigmthe Dialectical Forge Modelto account for the power of jadal in shaping Islamic law and legal theory.

In addition to overviews of current evolutionary narratives for Islamic legal theory and dialectic, and expositions on key texts, this work shines an analytical light upon the considerably sophisticated proto-system of juridical dialectical teaching and practice evident in Islams second century, several generations before the first full-system treatises of legal and dialectical theory were composed. This proto-system is revealed from analyses of dialectical sequences in the 2^nd/8^th century Kitb Ikhtilf al-?Irqiyy+n / ?Irqiyyayn (the subject-text) through a lens molded from 5^th/11^th century jadal-theory treatises (the lens-texts). Specific features thus uncovered inform the elaboration of a Dialectical Forge Model, whose more general components and functions are explored in closing chapters.

Chapter 1 The Current Project.- Chapter 2 Evolutionary Narratives.- Chapter 3 The Subject-Text and its Genre.- Chapter 4 The Full-System Jadal Theory of the Lens-Texts.- Chapter 5 Extended DilE